Did you even read the article? > The rest make under $20 a week by working an hour or two per day. The most commonly cited reasons for using Mechanical Turk ar

Did you even read the article? > The rest make under $20 a week by working an hour or two per day. The most commonly cited reasons for using Mechanical Turk are to earn some extra spending money and productively use time that would otherwise be wasted watching television. One academic study that relied on Mechanical Turk workers filling out questionnaires noted that its American participants were “normally distributed in terms of socioeconomic status, with the average participant having completed some college and receiving a financial income between $37,500–49,999 per year.” This does not match up with the perception of exploited sweatshop labor - the poor who must accept low wages due to a lack of alternatives. I guess it ought to be illegal for people to choose to make productive use of their time. Next time, please read the article before parroting your ideological commitments.